Thread regarding Humana Inc. layoffs

@tf Wow, so clever. Congratulations. Your Mom would be so proud. :)

The b-ms will always lose! Do you hear me Lebowski? The b-ms will ALWAYS lose!

@nb Let’s face it; they won. Somehow the large corporations, no matter their underlying practices, always do. Same goes for the ultra rich.

I suspect some smoke and mirrors provided this illusion of success.

@cs Actually, I am not saying that.

But the reason I am replying is I wanted to thank you so much for your expression of appreciation for me having shared my post.

That was very kind of you and much appreciated! It was my pleasure. Thanks for reading and have a wonderful day!

@cc so you are telling us you don’t know how star ratings are calculated? Thanks for sharing, I guess

If anyone happens to come across my post on LinkedIn regarding this subject matter, please feel free to repost it. I would not object to having 100k reposts. Not because I care about any stats; could care less. But because I think the news media has failed us in telling the whole transparent truth on things. So, up to us now.

@c8 I stand by my comments. Had Humana not exited those plans, they would not have had an overall higher star ratings average and their stock would not have soared today.

And by your using firstly and secondly, obviously you read my post on LinkedIn.

Not sure if that is intended to intimidate me but it does not.

Firstly, exiting plans hurts star ratings. Secondly, the star ratings released yesterday are based on 2025 performance, so the 2027 plan exits have no bearing on the scores.

@bq Healthcare and health insurance never should have turned into a profit making venture. I know this flies in the face to all you finance and accounting majors.

But healthcare and the insurance that is supposed to cover such is by definition intended to be what some might term a “bleeding heart” mission of caring. And particularly for our elderly, disabled, and indigent.

This should not be about the numbers. In fact, Medicare and Medicaid and the companies that administrate those should be willing to take a loss, if it means covering the healthcare expenses for those in need. And terminating their plans, just because they were to expensive and not profitable ends up placing the burden on those members.

That is why Medicare administration really needs to either be completely handed back over to traditional medicare or else the government should be contracting with non-profit companies.

Didn’t they drop some plans this year? And aren’t the scores from last year?

Strategic planning requires impactful decisions to be made.

It is so shameful I am tempted to call it out, the way Humana did this, on LinkedIn.

At this point, I really no longer care about keeping my identity anonymous. This corporation has really took a big time turn for the worse and only increasingly getting even more so.

And they are going to continue profiting while continuing to cause human suffering is beyond contemptible.

Humana has nothing to cheer about here! Not worthy of a pat on the back or a fist pump. All you did was artificially raise your star rating average by removing the bottom numbers on the bell curve. I think they call that cheating actually.

And who paid for that? Yep, the poor members whose policies you terminated.

Humana Executives chose to raise their stock at the expense (on the backs) of 600,000 members who they terminated their coverage so that Humana could raise their overall star ratings because those members were bringing them down. Shameful!

Maybe my favorite NFL team can pull a Humana and simply drop their five worst games for the year so they can get into the Super Bowl.

Or maybe my favorite PGA golfer could simply drop several of scores in his worst holes so he can win the tournament.

Or maybe when someone goes to get their annual physical, they could just have the doctor subtract 15 Lbs. from their weight and ten points from their systolic pressure.

I mean, that is how we do things now, I take it. We don’t try to fix things, we just quit or exit them.